Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in John 17:17

“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”

John 17:17 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in John 17:17, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of John 17. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • John 15:3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
  • Psalms 119:160Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
  • Ephesians 5:26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
  • 1 Peter 1:22Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
  • John 17:19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
  • James 1:21Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
  • John 8:32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:13But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belie…
  • Psalms 19:7The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
  • Psalms 119:11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
  • Psalms 119:9Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
  • Ephesians 4:21If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
  • Psalms 12:6The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
  • Psalms 119:151Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.

More to meet God in John

John 3:16John 14:6John 8:32John 10:10John 16:33John 11:25John 13:34John 1:1John 3:17John 1:12John 14:27John 13:7John 15:13John 15:5

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.